Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll have to go down to the roundabout and come back up . |
| 2 | ‘ We are being asked to ensure patients get certain benefits , but surely this is down to the Government , ’ said Mr Richardson . |
| 3 | ‘ We are being asked to ensure patients get certain benefits , but surely this is down to the Government , ’ said Mr Richardson . |
| 4 | I naturally felt very good about it and proud of myself for the discipline I had shown during the winter in getting down to the work necessary to achieve the successes I had obtained . |
| 5 | Because when it came down to the work bit |
| 6 | Students seem much more inclined to knuckle down to the work and not get involved in quite such dramatic protests as they were before . |
| 7 | After trips to southern Africa and India , he practised briefly as a barrister , married , and settled down to the life of a gentleman , pursuing the two great passions of his life — the study of natural history and of great literature ( French , German , and Spanish , all read in the original languages , as well as English ) . |
| 8 | Right down to the middle of the nineteenth century travellers to Aswan felt they had reached the limits of civilization . |
| 9 | In mechanics there were interactions in which momentum ( mv ) was conserved , and others in which vis viva ( mv 2 ) was unchanged ; but down to the middle of the nineteenth century there was no principle of the same generality as that which Lavoisier had made into the foundation of chemistry . |
| 10 | The south east ridge leads down into a bowl of porridge-like peat , so I bore off eastwards , still rough enough , into the paring wind , crossing the Allt an t-Strathain Mhoir high up to drop down to the church . |
| 11 | This cobbled route is still a joy to follow ; the top half of it , as it curves down to the church and the river , lined with sober houses built from the local cocoa-coloured stone and dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — datable precisely in some cases from the inscribed lintel stones ; then the church , seventeenth-century and disappointingly dull ; the old bridge over the Nive , which is the place to look up — and downstream , at the houses built along the banks with their projecting wooden galleries ; and then on towards the Porte d'Espagne , past the shops and more very decent old houses . |
| 12 | Sunday morning , up bright and early for Sunday in those days , seven o'clock , out for a walk and then down to the church for choir . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , of course I did — and I can pop down to the church and see you come out , ’ she offered impulsively , which thankfully seemed to satisfy the other girl . |
| 14 | He would have gone straight home but made a short diversion when he found Pike the ditcher drunk as a bishop on the corner of the trackway leading down to the church . |
| 15 | And I 'll go down to the church and park by the church , how about that ? |
| 16 | She remembered me coming down to the burn and tramping the bags in the the , help to wash them . |
| 17 | Dawn was just breaking as she went down to the burn to fetch water . |
| 18 | Span wire construction of the overhead suspension was used throughout ( except in Oak Grove leading down to the depôt ) . |
| 19 | It was a shed hand actually , he did n't , was n't responsible for cash although he helped the cashier and er , I well remember this erm in those days the conductor used to either run into depot with the bus or he 'd get relief on the Cornhill , he walked down to the depot carrying his cash in his cash bag and then he 'd sit in the paying in room and he 'd laboriously cam carried out his cash , piling the pennies into stacks , the ha'pennies , the tokens , the sixpences , every denomination . |
| 20 | Well when , when Friar Lawrence returned when he was meant to be giving the letter to Romeo , I was just devastated , I did I just did n't know what to do so all I could do was rush down to the graveyard and try and stop Romeo , by the time I was there it was too late . |
| 21 | Ultimately , much of the debate comes down to the question of choice , the word that the Tories have so successfully colonised in rhetoric and so often failed to deliver in reality . |
| 22 | It really boils down to the question of intent . |
| 23 | Right down to the question mark at the end of their name , right ? |
| 24 | If you wanted to invent a perfectly stereotyped queer , this is the story you 'd tell — down to the name ‘ Mary ’ and the fact that his sexual partners were young , and prostitutes . |
| 25 | She now leant across the counter and , poking her face down to the child 's , she said , ‘ No , I did n't Bobbie , because if I had you would n't have got half as much as is in that bag . |
| 26 | Not only did he have to keep wafting a smoke machine to create that distinctive curry house fug , and smoking cigarettes down to the level of the previous scene ; he also had to keep up a steady supply of fresh poppadums . |
| 27 | It was as if poets owed an explanation to the audience for being what they were , to bring creatures apart down to the level of ordinary folks ; as if the poet might be indulged his little failings and eccentricities as long as he allowed himself to be democratically mauled in public by thoughtless questioners or — even worse , much worse — by fellow-poets or by those who had poetic pretensions and who found in ‘ question time ’ an opportunity to assuage their jealousy or seek revenge for their own incompetence and mediocrity . |
| 28 | The Corporation , in any event , envisaged a higher building on the lorry-park site to match the larger building beyond , with the silhouette stepped down to the level of the Georgian Custom House on the east side . |
| 29 | We can not therefore budget down to the level of the individual patient . |
| 30 | It has taken a woman to remind us all that there are people out there who are determined that Northern Ireland will not be dragged down to the level of barbarity displayed by the terrorists . |